Through the Giants’ first two playoff romps, a valid argument can be made Nicks has been the team’s best player. The third-year wideout has managed to score 24 points by himself: a pair of touchdowns against the Falcons and a pair of touchdowns against the Packers.

And he has delivered them dramatically. A superb 4-yard jumping grab. A 72-yard catch-and-run. A 66-yard catch-and-run. And a 37-yard Hail Mary.

Nicks has racked up 13 catches for 280 yards and four touchdowns in his two playoff games.

“I don’t think it’s too impressive. Honestly, you ain’t seen nothing yet,” Nicks said yesterday, a day after his heroics against the Packers in the Divisional round. “I think I’m just now peaking, personally. I think as a team we’re going to keep on doing what we’re doing.”

Nicks, who turned 24 Saturday, is soft-spoken, rarely making bold claims and speaking with an elevated whisper. He has reason, though, to declare he still has more to come.

“Because I feel like I know what I’m capable of doing in big games,” he said. “Making big plays in big games.”

Nicks said he believes he’s one of the NFL’s elite wide receivers, and that belief might be valid. He at least might be the best receiver to have come out of the 2009 Draft. Taken 29th overall, Nicks was the fifth receiver selected (coincidentally, he’ll face one picked ahead of him, San Francisco’s Michael Crabtree, on Sunday in the NFC Championship).

Among the receivers from that draft, Nicks ranks second in catches (behind Minnesota’s Percy Harvin), second in yards (behind Pittsburgh’s Mike Wallace) and tied for first in touchdowns with Wallace.

“These are special hands,” coach Tom Coughlin said of Nicks.

Looking at the Giants offense, their quarterback, both primary running backs and most of the offensive line were all part of the 2007-08 Super Bowl team. But the receiving corps of Nicks, Victor Cruz and Mario Manningham is entirely different. And in the group’s first postseason, they have been delivering.

“We’ve got all the guys in,” Nicks said. “We’re all in and everybody wants to contribute.”

Manningham, in particular, will be one to watch Sunday. When the Giants faced the 49ers on Nov. 13, Manningham had a potential game-tying touchdown hit off his fingertips with just under three minutes left. He didn’t dive for it and said, “I have to come down with it. … I should have laid out.”

Nicks said he saw the clip of his Hail Mary on TV.

“I actually didn’t realize that it was off of my helmet,” he said. “I thought it was on my chest or something. But like I said after the game, it was something I was going to have to go back and see. And when I went back to see it on film, it was a pretty good catch.”